In this installment, we are proud to announce Ingo Weinhold's contract,
a brief summary of our donation history, and a new method for accepting donations.

Ingo has been accepted for a contract: 160 hours for $2,000 USD total.
His tasks will focus on these areas

Bug fixing & improving the kernel and related systems

Testing and improving POSIX compliance

R1 Alpha 2 release coordination

The Alpha 2 release coordination depends on whether or not a concrete
decision is made. If the release does not occur during his time purchased,
someone may need to step up once the contract is completed.
The planned activities for release coordination
would include maintaining the alpha branch, keeping track of
release-blocking bugs, and organizing release related votes.

Below is a brief analysis of our PayPal donations over the past six months.
During that time, about $1,100 USD has been donated strictly through recurring donations.
On top of that, about $2,000 USD was donated as one-time donations, with over half of that being raised in February alone!
As you can see, there was a noticeable increase that coincides with our first announcement of hiring contractors.
If you aren't a Haiku donor, please consider it; subscribing for even $5 or €5 a month can make a well appreciated
improvement to Haiku Inc.'s abilities to continue accepting contractors.

Month

Number of Recurring Donations

Amount in Recurring Donations

Number of One Time Donations

Amount in One Time Donations

Monthly Total

2009-Oct

11

$142.29

3

$57.44

$199.73

2009-Nov

15

$189.78

4

$106.43

$296.21

2009-Dec

13

$151.38

5

$148.27

$299.65

2010-Jan

13

$151.38

3

$55.36

$206.74

2010-Feb

20

$221.94

29

$1117.95

$1339.89

2010-Mar

21

$236.01

12

$553.95

$789.96

Totals

-

$1092.78

56

$2039.4

$3132.18

While PayPal is our primary method for accepting donations,
we understand that not everyone prefers to use it.
To help accommodate this desire, we are setting up Google Checkout
as an additional means for accepting donations.
The most striking feature is its ability to process credit cards.
At this moment only one-time donations are being offered.
Google Checkout's subscription functionality is supported only as a Beta API;
it requires some more involved testing and preparation on our part before being deployed.
Hopefully later in the month it will be supported on our website.
As mentioned on Donating to Haiku Inc., we also accept physical checks.